May 2, 2013

For homework this weekend the students are bringing home the story they wrote in class over the last 2 days.  This will give you an idea of how hard they have been working on story writing.  Please help them correct spelling, uppercase letters and punctuation.

For Word Work we worked with the blends sp and spl.

In art today we explored "Pop Art".  Pop art can be any every day item that is displayed in a brash and colorful way.  Pop Art is short for Popular Art. It is inspired by comic strips, advertising, and popular entertainment.  Here are the results:

This afternoon we had gym and we finished up our week long learning about how to use stacking cups with relay races in the gym.  For those of you who do not know about stacking cups, check out the video below:

Finally, in science today we talked about how our eyes can play tricks on us.  We did the following page in our book:

These tricks are called optical illusions.  To check out more illusions, click here.

Have a great weekend!!!